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2017 hit the ground running in a fast and furious way, for obvious reasons. But wait a second — it’s suddenly March?!? Events and deadlines that seemed far into the future are suddenly right around the corner, with less time than you thought to cover everything in that intricate plan. Oh, if only time machines really did exist. One critical deadline on the near horizon applies to businesses who work with payment cards — merchants, financial institutions, point-of-sale vendors and developers who create and operate infrastructure that processes payments. And every one of those businesses needs to pay attention to…

During our conversations with customers and prospects these days, the question of implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA) usually begins with “when do you plan to?” instead of “are you planning to?” We no longer need to ask: “Are you planning to implement MFA for remote server access and application access?” “Are you planning to implement MFA for password checkout and privilege elevation?” Starting the question with “when” assumes it’s a given. It is. The power and value of MFA is now broadly recognized. More so in the U.S. now that the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS 3.2, April 2016) has…

Centrify CEO Tom Kemp, an industry expert in security and infrastructure software, discusses market and technology issues around the disruption occurring in the Identity and Access Management market due to the cloud, mobile and consumerization of IT trends occurring in today's IT environment.